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I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.
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I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
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Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud-and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing.
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As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
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If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
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Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden. The businessmen of our country are compelled to lead temperate lives, otherwise their credit is gone.
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Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
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Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .
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There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.
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I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.
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The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not, I shall always express my real opinion, and shall always be glad to say to those who mourn: 'There is in death, as I believe, nothing worse than sleep. Hope for as much better as you can.'
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.
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The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan that is to say, human, natural.
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In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
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Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
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There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots you have got to go the regular turnpike road.
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Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.
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One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.
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